One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

The North-South Dialogues round table on the theme “Prospects and interregional cooperation for the abolition of death penalty” took place on 20 May at 17h00 at the Institute of Political Studies of ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. Not only is it hugely and uniquely ...

The justice ecosystem has, since the moratorium on death penalty, been weighing the benefits or otherwise of reintroducing ...